[argyllcms] Printer: CMYK or CcMmYK or ...
- From: Geert Janssens <info@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:35:30 +0100
Hi,
A more general question on printers: if you look at the wide range of printer
models these days, you find printers with 4 colors (CMYK), 6 colors (CcMmYk)
or even 8 or more colors (???).
At the same time, all of these models claim to be "photo" printers. So I start
to wonder about the value of more than 4 basic colors. Do these 6-color or 8-
color printers really have a larger gamut than the 4-color versions ?
And also, suppose i use argyllcms to profile these printers. As far as I
understand argyll only profiles CMYK (4 primaries) and not 6 or more
primaries. I am told that if the printer is "well behaved", this is no
problem. But would I then still have any benifit from the additional color
cartridges ? I mean, if more than 4 primaries would potentially give me a
larger gamut (my first question), would the fact that argyll only works with 4
primaries not be the limiting factor in the output chain ?
I hope I make some sense here...
Thanks,
Geert
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